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Thursday, October 13, 2005

southerners like me (7.21.05)

One day a few weeks ago, I was listening to this station when I heard a radio personality reference a couple of movies—A Time to Killand Mississippi Burning—as being uncomfortableto “Southerners like myself.”

I ruminated on this and tried to figure by definition,who Southerners like me were, considering I am indeed aSoutherner. The first movie showed a man of Africandescent killing another man for raping his daughter.The second had the audacity to portray the FBI andJ. Edgar Hoover as trying to get African Americansthe right to vote in Mississippi. I won’t digress on mypersonal disdain for providing false history lessons viamovies, but I will avail that I still did not see a difference.Surely this radio personality would do the same for hisdaughter—if he had one—or push for the rights of all to vote.

I couldn’t figure it out, until a few weeks later, whenthe same commentator, asserted that Tupac Shakurshould not have been celebrated in any form or fashion,because he (allegedly) shot at cops and sold drugs. IfI recall correctly, the Kennedy clan made loot frombootlegging, which illegal at the time; and the Black Panthersreportedly shot at cops (I admire the Black Panther Party forSelf Defense, regardless of allegations against them).

I concluded that the radio personality was playing therace card. Sorry, we can vote now if we so choose, and are nolonger slaves. If you don’t like me and mine, then say it, anddon’t try to use logic for personal assault. For you are not aSoutherner like me. --torrance stephens